How to Put Guitar Strings in the Tuning Pegs

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Hi, I'm Mike Lais, and on behalf of Expert Village, this is "How to Change Your Guitar Strings". Here we go, now we've got the strings in the bridge, we're nearly there. So now what I want to do put your guitar in between your legs, kind of like a cello, just like this, and I'm going to want to put the strings into the headstock. I like to start with the largest string, and what I'm going to do is, you've got the hole here, I'm going to run it through the hole like so, and then you want to stretch it out to be, I'd say, about right there for the "E" string. So right here we've got about eight inches of string hanging out. So now you want to take the string, and you want to bend it over, bend it out so that it's not going in, at a ninety degree angle so that it's just nice and tight, that way it will hold your string in while you wind it. So now I'm going to take my fingers here and hold the string in the little slit of the nut right here. And I'm just going to wind it up a little bit so that we get it just kind of wrapping around like so, and I'm just going to keep going so that we get it around there a couple of times. You see it's going to pop around and that's quite alright, you just want to keep it nice and tight. So keep in mind when you're doing this you are applying new tension to the guitar, so when you are stringing it, there's a pattern that I like to do that kind of helps keep the tension even. I do the largest string, and then I will do the lowest string, or the high "E", followed by the second string, and then you just alternate. So you want to go 6, 1, 2, 5, 3, 4.

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